Theo Taplitz is an 19-year-old artist and filmmaker from Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles. His work explores the middle ground between objective and subjective experience and the ruptures that occur in that unstable territory. He is a 2020 YoungArts Finalist and a 2019 & 2021 Scholastic Art and Writing National Gold Medalist. Theo graduated from the Visual Arts program at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts in 2021 and is currently a John Jay Scholar at Columbia University in New York.